The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-10-15

JnGI wounds later on. among the
latter number was Miss Lafarge.
She and her travelling companion are
rescued, both in an unconscious con-
ditiou, and are conveyed to a neighbor-
ing farmhouse.
They are disrobed and put to bed,
and medical help summoned.
Miss Lafarge is by far the greater
sufferer Of the two. She is burned
shockingly, and perhaps fatally. Her
head and neck present a frightful APP
pearance, and she Is unconscious and
remains so.
Her companion has escaped with a
comparatively light injury, which con
sists IN a broken right arm. Presently
the surgeons and physicians arrive.
They consult each other; they argue;
they disagree.
In the midst of their arguments my
lady struggles back to consciousness.
She realizes vaguely that she is no
longer a lady in black, but that, at
tired in a long white gown, with her
arm tightly bandaged and held in
sling, she occupies a narrow cot in
close proximity to another cot, upon
which lies a long, still object, covered
over with a sheet Around this cot,
and bending over the still object, which
my lady feels intuitively is Miss La
FARCE, the physicians are gathered. She
catches the import of their words
dimly, and she shoulders all over. She
wonders if it IS really so horrible as
those doctors say.
VIII Miss Lafarge die? The thought
paralyzes my lady for 4 moment. Her
brain whrls. How solemn the doctors
look She wonders vaguely if she is
gong to die, too Then the room dances
about in a curious fashion; the win
dows lily up to the ceiling, and the cell
ing seems to sink down to the floor
Then, nothing, When she opens her
eyes again the doctors are all gone. 4
motherly old woman sits at her side
with a camphor bottle in her hand, and
two men are carrying out something
long and white on a board, and the
other cot is empty.
Poor dear, I'm afraid the shock was
too much for yop the motherly wom-
an IS saying, and she knows now, with
out being told, what has happened to
her late travelling companion.
she was baby any way, that La
FARCE, is the first thought that comes
to her. after the momentary horror
passes away; 'inane little thing, she
ought to have died
The night settles down upon the
scene. Morning dawns And with the
morning comes returning strength and
u clear brain. Ny lady insists upon sit
ting up and beng clothed, and asks for
her gown. Much against her Will, the
'motherly woman fetches in a guam
tity Of garments, and with great per-
trbahon spreads them out before her
guest for inspection.
on ladies were brought in here at
the same time, and those who disrobed
You not being here now, ] am unable
to say which one Of the gowns belongs
to Won The other lady being dead.
poor dear-and laid out in the west
chamber there-can't tell me which Is
hers so You will have to do it for
her
My lady is a lady of fertile brain,
and q mind that Is quick to perceive an
opportunity, and here IS an opportun-
ity
VIII she use it?
The lady closes her handsome eyes.
She hesitates; and rs is proverbialIv
the ease, "the woman who hesitates Is
lost
t Is very evident the opportunity
will not be lost, for presently she opens
wide her handsome eyes, snaps her lit
tie white teeth, and SAYS vivaciOusly-
lying Ike a lord-or a lady, may be:
he gray things are mine, please
The black gown belongs to my poor